There is a not insignificant number of Americans who want a dictator.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

The lion's share of them are on the right but not all of them. They want a dictator as long as the people they dislike are dictated to. America has never with the emphasis on never and I'm aware of our history been in a worse place.

[msongs]

1. one notices the majority of repub baloney is what you CAN'T do nt

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. But 80% of these people have no idea what their endgame will conjour up in terms of of ourfuture

society, The other 20% know and don't give a shit because they believe they will benefit from 1 Party rule.

[GoodRaisin]

9. One thing they can count on.

Generosity won't be part of it.

[grumpyduck]

3. Yeah, and just listen to them

whine and complain when it happens. 'Cuz it will all apply to them too.

Fucking morons.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. The Bolshevik Revolution is instructive.

Trotsky ended up on the run in Mexico with a pickaxe in his dome from Stalin's henchmen.

[grumpyduck]

5. Yeah, reading history

does put stuff into perspective...

If someone bothers to think about it.

[ReluctanceTango]

10. I read that the ice axe went nearly 3 inches

into his brain, and it didn't kill him instantly. Instead, Trotsky apparently fought the guy after getting hit. His guards heard the commotion and went in to save him.

Mexican doctors operated on him, but he died the next day. Bled out, mostly. Shock finished him off.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

18. Trotsky was actually a true revolutionary.

He wanted worldwide revolution. Stalin wanted revolution on one country. In the current instance Trump would be Stalin and Bannon would be Trotsky.

[betsuni]

13. +1

[Baked Potato]

6. "Fear" is not sustainable either.

People want to rejoice in the warmth of the sun.

[GenThePerservering]

7. They think they'll have golden apron strings

and when all of their civil rights are stripped from them save their guns, they'll somehow be 'free'.

[TreasonousBastard]

8. Dictatoship has its its advantages to some. Aside from...

those at the top who make the rules, many of the population is happy to have a predictable, if often miserable, existance.

[durablend]

11. And they're also happy

That *others* have that same miserable existence as them.

[AngryOldDem]

12. When times are bad and people are scared, this is what happens.

Someone comes along and promises “Only I can fix it” and the people fall in line.

We’re at the most dangerous point in our existence as a nation since the Civil War (which never really ended in the first place).

We must remember, though, that once we give up our rights and freedom to that “savior,” we will never get them back.

[Kid Berwyn]

14. Defunding education pays.

[JHB]

15. "I'm fine with a banana republic, as long as I'm not the one picking bananas"

-- the anthem of the Conservative Movement.

[uponit7771]

16. Republicans want a dictator Americans want accountability

[Irish_Dem]

17. They will happily embrace a dictatorship if it means white christian minority rule.

And cheap gas.

[dawg]

19. Except they'd only get the white christian minority rule.

There's nothing that Republicans would do that would lower gas prices in the near term.

[Irish_Dem]

20. The oligarchs might lower prices when GOP is in office.

The oligarchs clearly favor a dictatorship.

[dawg]

21. Why on Earth would they do that?

Once they've got us, they've got us. Time to reap the benefits.

[Irish_Dem]

23. Oligarchs use their power and wealth to manipulate others to get what they want.

So yes they would do short term price reduction to obtain their goals of permanent power and wealth.

[lindysalsagal]

22. There are regular psychological tests proving that some brains are hard-wired for

authoritarianism. It makes them feel safe, even if they're on the receiving end of it. Thus, russia.

Even at the start of our country, something like 25% of colonists were monarchists. I don't see that number changing over the centuries. Problem is, with the help of religion, they get all the funding, and our government is now owned by multi-national corporations and donors. We are no longer a representative-led society. The end of democracy? That was Citizen's United. 2010.